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In this stunning novel, Cynthia Cruz administers an IV drip of capitalist entropy that keeps us rapt: Steady Diet of Nothing compels readers to consume it in one headlong sitting. Charting the dissolution of an adolescent runaway community, the book follows a teenage girl, Candy, after her arrival at the Blue House -- an abandoned home inhabited by other children seeking shelter from the world. Here, she falls in love with Toby, a boy from els...

National Book Critics Circle Award Winner Cynthia Cruz reevaluates the paradox of the death drive in her eighth collection of poetry, Back to the Woods. Could it be that in ceaselessly snuffing ourselves out we are, in fact, trying to survive? In "Shine, " Cruz's speaker attests that "if [she] had a home, it would be // a still in a film / where the sound / got jammed." This book inhabits the silence of the empty orchestra pit, facing "dread, ...

A striking cultural and philosophical study of working-class artists and the resilience of radical survival.Becoming Nothing is an exploration of the concept of negative freedom and the working class.Originating from German idealism, negative freedom the ability to say no to everything outside of one’s self. This can take the form of withdrawing from capitalist society, but can also include addiction, self-harm and crime. Although often self-d...

A specter, haunting the edges of society: because neoliberalism insists there are no social classes, thus, there is no working class, the main subject of Hotel Oblivion, a working class subject, does not exist. With no access to a past, she has no home, no history, no memory. And yet, despite all this, she will not assimilate. Instead, this book chronicles the subject's repeated attempts at locating an exit from capitalist society via acts of ...

What does it mean to be working-class in a middle-class world? Cynthia Cruz shows us how class affects culture and our mental health and what we can do about it -- calling not for assimilation, but for annihilation.In The Melancholia of Class, Cynthia Cruz describes with clarity and precision what class is, its various and often nuanced manifestations, and the violence it inflicts upon the working-class while, simultaneously articulating an al...

A slide show in poems documenting the ruin wrought by war and inequality on those who defy the status quo. In Guidebooks for the Dead, Cynthia Cruz returns to a familiar literary landscape in which a cast of extraordinary women struggle to create amidst violence, addiction and poverty. For Marguerite Duras, evoked here in a collage of poems, the process of renaming herself is a "Quiet death, " a renewal she envisions as vital to her evolution....

How do our bodies speak for us when words don't suffice? How can we make ourselves understood when what we have to say is inarticulable? In Disquieting, Cynthia Cruz tarries with others who have provided examples of how to "turn away, " or reject the ideologies of contemporary Neoliberal culture. These essays inhabit connections between silence, refusal, anorexia, mental illness, and Neoliberalism. Cruz also explores the experience of being wo...

Latina poets occupy an important place in today's literary landscape. Coming from diverse backgrounds, they share an understanding of what it means to exist within the margins of society. As artists, they possess a dedication to their craft and a commitment to experimentation. Their voices-sometimes lyrical, sometimes autobiographical, sometimes politically charged-are distinctly female. Whereas previous anthologies have merged the works of La...

Like a series of slides from a film reel, the poems of Dregs reveal the ruin, remnants or dregs left over from the wars and economic and human inequalities of our world today. Praise for The Glimmering Room:¿¿an exquisite fever dream of drugs, anorexia and unwanted sex (in both senses of the word) populated by young women and men¿who have lost all sense of where the edge is¿.¿ ¿Dana Jennings, New York Times

Poems that give voice to the voiceless in the face of poverty, addiction, war, and consumerism

El presente libro examina la eficacia de la gestión social municipal, mediante la elaboración de un marco explicativo que permite comprender la incidencia de la gestión social municipal en el desarrollo local. Por lo cual, con el propósito de delimitar un marco teórico para la problemática planteada se establecieron los siguientes ejes rectores: descentralización y planeación del desarrollo en América Latina y México, desarrollo local y teoría...

In Wunderkammer, Cynthia Cruz collects and chronicles "glam and gloom, " the darling and the damaged

A chronicle of the struggle between the opposing worlds of the material and the unseen

This confident, intense debut speaks of ruined childhoods with both terror and tenderness.